Avalreagh

98 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Avalreagh, from 46 m² to 243,175 m² (24.32 ha, 60.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Avalreagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 May 2026N/a

  planning permission for an alteration to / increase in, the approved stock numbers (as provided for under condition No. 2e of permission Ref: 18/360 & 239007 (currently in construction)) previously granted by Monaghan Co. Co., together with all ancillary structures and associated site works, on and or adjacent to an existing poultry farm. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660172

• 19 Feb 2025Conditional

  permission to construct a two storey style dwelling house, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new bored well, use existing entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560051

• 2 Oct 2023Conditional

  permission for alterations / revisions to that approved under planning ref: 21/617 to consist of: (i) Additional floor area to rear single-storey (ii) Additional floor area to first floor level to include pitched roof (iii) Relocation of single-storey domestic garage (iv) All ancillary elevational changes (v) All associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 23202

• 13 Sept 2023N/a

  permission for alterations / revisions to that approved under planning ref. 21/617. The alterations / revisions will consist of the following (i) additional floor area to the rear single-storey (ii) additional floor area to the first floor level to include pitched roof (iii) relocation of single-storey domestic garage (iv) all ancillary elevational changes (v) all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 23186

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of i) partially demolish the existing single storey dwelling, ii) construct a new storey and a half extension to the side of the existing dwelling with alterations to existing elevations and roof structure, iii) new wastewater treatment system, together with all associated works. Significant information; planning description has been amended to read "Planning permission for alterations and extension to the existing dwelling to include accommodation for dependant relatives in accordance with Monaghan Area plan 2019-2025, Section 15.13.2".

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21635

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling, detached single-storey domestic garage, new entrance on existing shared laneway together with new gates and piers, wastewater treatment system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21617

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission to construct a replacement two storey detached dwelling and detached shed with the demolition of existing two storey detached dwelling, existing vehicular entrance, packaged wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, percolation area, landscaping and associated site works

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 219018

• 9 Apr 2019Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to the front and rear of his existing dwellinghouse and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19157

• 30 Jul 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct 4 no. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s), and soiled water Tank(s) and ancillary site works (to include an upgraded site entrance) associated with the above development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this application. Significant further information relates to an amended EIAR.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18360

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Avalreagh.

Recorded monuments

• MO014-026 Crannog
  Description

  Situated close to the NW shore of a small subrectangular lake (max. dims c. 230m NE-SW; c. 110-160m NW-SE) that was unnamed and has now dried up completely. It is depicted as a small island (diam. c. 5m) only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A circular overgrown cairn (diam. 15m; H 0.3m) rises from the bog. No structural features are visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 February 2018

Architectural heritage

• Clontibret Orange Hall, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Orange Hall, dated 1901, having gablet over middle of first floor. Now in use as community centre. Pitched natural slate roof, having red brick chimneystacks to gable ends, cement verges, crested terracotta ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative timber bargeboard to gablet. Smooth rendered walls with smooth plinth course, with date plaque to front elevation. Square-headed window openings, with stone sills to east elevation, and paired round-headed window openings under gablet, all windows boarded up. Square-headed boarded-up door opening to front elevation. Outlines of window and door openings to west elevation, now all blocked up. Rubble limestone boundary wall to east of site with square-plan gate piers and limestone coping. Tarmac car park to north.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having shallow windbreak to front elevation, and gabled return and flat-roofed extension to return, latter continuing beyond gable and in use as post office. Hipped replacement slate roof, having symmetrically-placed red brick chimneystacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls, with rusticated quoins to east elevation. Square-headed window openings throughout, having two-over-two timber sliding sash windows to front, north and part of rear elevations, and replacement timber and uPVC casement windows to rear and to return and extension. Square-headed main doorway, with replacement uPVC door. Low rendered sandstone and limestone rubble boundary wall terminating in round-plan rendered gate piers with square-plan pointed stone caps and wrought-iron single-leaf pedestrian gate. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate accessing rear to north. Ancillary twentieth-century farm buildings to rear. Located adjacent to former Dublin to Derry road.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Avalreagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Avalreagh.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Avalreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Avalreagh · Abhaill Riabhach

Area

1,406,171 m² (140.62 ha, 347.47 acres)

Civil parish

Clontibret, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Clontibret, the unit of the census

Census 2022

792 people lived in 263 households in the Clontibret electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Avalbane, Carrickanure, Cashel, Crossmore, Gallagh, Glasdrumman East, Kilcrow

Placenames

Avalreagh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.